What is a literary language?

Abstract

The article returns to the dual meaning that the expression 'literary language'
can cover, following the analysis given of the adjective 'literary'.
This distinction between a 'supported' or 'sought-after' language and the language
autonomous "of literature" actually leads back to a time when, around
1850, is reconfigured in the imaginary world of French literature. It acts here to
remind one of the consequences of this mutation, namely the development
of stylistic patterns based on forms summoning, in a way
semiotics, this or that reading effect. Path making, by returning to the
paratopia that any 'literary' language supposes, we wish to question ourselves on
the necessary conditions to validate such a notion in context
multilingual.